Prediction: (If there are no throttles in place for submission) There will be more than 200 games listed in 2 days, 1,000 in 7 days. Too many to keep up with...

I think that is accounted for within the system. Good stuff will still rise to the top, as those projects will get passed amongst friends, written about on blogs on slow news days, or discussed on forums.

Greenlight is more of an open system of getting Valve to take a developer seriously than anything.

Is the counter broken? Every game I vote on says "this game has received 0% of the necessary ratings".

The FAQ makes it sound like they're not going to use the goal counter until they see what kind of response typical games get.

How many votes does a game need to get selected?
It's going to change during the first few days/weeks since we don't know what kind of traffic to expect. Part of the drive for this system is the need for customers to help us prioritize which games they want to see made available on Steam. So the specific number of votes doesn't matter as much as relative interest in a game compared with other games in Steam Greenlight.

I feel bad for the people at Valve who had to sort through these games now on the one hand people have put a lot of time and effort into making the games and on the other you have to have some kind of quality threshold. I'm only going to consider voting stuff with long let's play style videos or demos, it's too hard to determine whether a game is worth it from just a trailer and a blurb.

I feel bad for the people at Valve who had to sort through these games now on the one hand people have put a lot of time and effort into making the games and on the other you have to have some kind of quality threshold. I'm only going to consider voting stuff with long let's play style videos or demos, it's too hard to determine whether a game is worth it from just a trailer and a blurb.

Question: how are ya'll handling down-voting? The Greenlight page seems to show only games that I haven't yet rated. My OCD makes me want to clear that page by rating everything, but I don't really want to hurt a game's chances by down-voting, just because it doesn't appeal to me.

My hunch is that it doesn't matter *that* much, and in a quasi-democratic system like this, the cream will still rise to the top. Just wish we had more insight into how Valve will be selecting Greenlight games.